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New York Farm Bureau today criticized billboards posted around the Albany area that knocks people for eating cheese.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which has been labeled as an animal-rights group based in Washington D.C., has billboards up with photos of overweight people and the caption “Your Thighs on Cheese” and “Your Abs On Cheese.”

“PCRM has been denounced by the American Medical Association and the National Osteoporosis Organization among others,” said Dean Norton, president of New York Farm Bureau, in a statement. “Dr. Neal Barnard who heads up this group is in fact a psychiatrist, and not a ...

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